thank you for your concern :)
It is (truly, no sarcasm) very kind of everybody who’s told me that Amazon (and Fictionwise, and previous to this, Barnes & Noble) have got the wrong book data up for HOUSE OF CARDS. I’ve told my publishers, and they’re working on fixing it. That’s about all I can do, except pass on my thanks from my editor, who is laboring under the impression that I’m really on top of this stuff, when in fact it is my good and true and loyal readers who are on top of it all. :)
March 1st, 2008 at 6:32 am
I hate to bombard you with additional sites, but the audio book information from Audible is also incorrect. It took me several hours of frustration reading the book data, to finally figure that something was wrong. I checked your site and saw that it did have the same characters. I was getting all huffy for no reason thinking I was missing characters I really liked. I also saw that it wasn’t obviously your fault, but I am so very sorry for the mental tongue lashing I gave you.
(meek)
-tizroc
March 1st, 2008 at 1:42 pm
*laugh* I absolve you of the tongue lashing. :)
Thanks for the heads-up; I hadn’t been able to find it on Audible.com the other day (I did look, after all these things were screwed up all over the place), but maybe I was looking before it got posted or something. Anyway, I’ve notified my editor. With any luck it’ll be fixed soon. Sigh.
-Catie
March 6th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
I just read the second book of the negotiator trilogy and I was blown away! Great book, can’t wait for the next.
March 8th, 2008 at 3:13 am
I really enjoyed the 2nd book in the negotiator trilogy. There were some great twists and turns that I was not expecting. I finished it in less than a day and I am looking forward to the next one in the trilogy.
March 8th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Thank you, Judie and Tina! I’m glad you’re enjoying the books. :) The revisions on book three were just turned in, and it’ll be out in September! yay! :)
-Catie
March 9th, 2008 at 6:07 am
Just finished “House of Cards”. Two words.
Kick. Ass.
Can’t wait for the next!
March 9th, 2008 at 8:30 am
Dear C.E. Murphy:
Aaaah!!! I just discovered you and your books the other day! Happy day! Incredible!!!
: ) : )
I stumbled on Heart of Stone at Half Price Books and, within 16 hours of starting (and finishing!) it, I entered the foreign territory of the nearest “fresh” books bookstore, to desperately and eagerly trade $14.95 for House of Cards.
That’s an anomaly for me! Sharing it is meant to express my admiration for your work more than anything else. (As an aside, I believe in supporting my favorite author’s work. As a recently starving student and now someone bent on making her own (musically) creative way, however, I perforce guard my pennies well.)
So I carried House of Cards home, slightly aghast at my indulgence but happily unrepentant. And I tucked it in bed with me at my soonest opportunity.
House of Cards deserves to be savored like the finest darkest chocolate, but that will have to come later. : ) This time, I consumed it like Ben & Jerry’s at midnight - spoon in carton, heedless, finishing all too soon but with delicious hedonistic pleasure.
What a story! What creatures! What characters! What issues! What scheming!
I’m utterly bemused and thrilled like a child with a roomful of candy. How?! How do you DO it?!! : ) (Rhetorical question, of course! Admiration again, not a demand for you to divulge your talent’s wellspring, be it magic or sweat.) : }
Though I have loads of creative fire, not ANY of it is in the realm of creative writing, so all I can do is marvel with an enormous grin on my face at the wonders you’ve worked, and sit back with equally enormous and gleeful appreciation!
I have warring parts of giddy elation and plunging despair to see that the next Negotiator novel is due out in September…
I only have to wait until September?! Joy!
I have to wait all the way until September?! Agony!!
If I can put in a word and a request (more a plea, actually)…
The word is *CONGRATULATIONS* and *THANK YOU!!* What talent and skill you share!! It has yielded incredible results!
The plea -
I see with dismay and a tinge of mournful disbelief that your Negotiator series is billed as a trilogy. :( Only three? Could you so easily leave this fantastic world you’ve created? If it must be a trilogy, can you nevertheless continue with Margrit and the Old Races in another series? Oh, please!
If you cannot, I will bow to the creative will, ; ) but if you can, know that you’ll be setting off fireworks of joy in a little corner of Seattle, Washington.
Yours truly,
Heather Carman : )
March 9th, 2008 at 10:42 am
*bursts out laughing* Wow, Heather. I don’t know, I’d say you’ve got a bit of a talent for creative writing yourself. *laugh* Thank you for your enthusiasm, and for daring a new bookstore for HOUSE OF CARDS. It means a lot to me that the story was worth searching it out new, since I’ve been riiiiiiiiiight where you are with the whole starving of-late student thing. :)
Margrit’s story will be wrapped up with the third book. I do have about eight other ideas for stories set in the Old Races world, and she may be a supporting character in some of those, but writing them is a long way out: I’m planning to finish the Walker Papers before I go back to the Old Races, so it’ll be several years before I return to that world.
The good news is that there’ll be a Janx and Daisani short story in an anthology published by Subterranean Press released next year (I think released next year o.o), so there’ll be at least a hint here and here of more of the Old Races. :)
As for how I do it…lots of practice. Lots and lots of practice. :)
-Catie
March 9th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
I wanted to know in the second book Margrit has that question in her head that she might be pregnant? Will that be answered in the next book?